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Online Multiplayer on Switch After Updating to 1.17 is Impossible

I play Minecraft on the Nintendo Switch, and before 1.17 could join friends world's, Realms, or the 7 public servers with ease. After Updating to 1.17, and more recently 1.17.10, it has become impossible to play online, on either friends world's or on Realms- the game always either pops up the "Unable to connect" screen, gets stuck on "Locating Server" while loading, or, if I'm really lucky and I can join a world, kicks me from it and disconnects my account, requiring me to restart the game. I really love playing online with my friends, and I feel like cross platform multiplayer is some thing that's talked about a lot, so please please please fix connection issues with the Nintendo Switch version of the game! Looking online and talking to friends, I'm not the only one experiencing this.

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• July 30, 2021 05:44
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  • August 03, 2021 01:09
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  Yeah, the same thing is happening to me and my brother. My brother is hosting a server on his switch, and I am no longer able to connect from my PC. 

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  • October 10, 2021 04:12
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  My nephew playing on the Switch cannot see me online under 'Joinable Cross-Platform Friends' and I can't see him under that either BUT when we search for each other with the 'Find Cross-Platform Friends' button, it shows both of us as being online and it says 'Currently playing Minecraft for Nintendo Switch/PS4'

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  • October 06, 2022 02:02
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  bugs.mojang.com
  make a jira account if you don’t have one
  wrong place my friend

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  • December 15, 2022 10:03
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  Wow thank you very much mojang. I LOVE MINECRAFT❤️